The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29
MEN AND WOMEN.
M, Quad Tells What Two Men Did and
What Two Women Didn't.


From the Detroit Free Press.
The four of us were put off at Wayne juno
ton the other day to wait for the train the Flint
and Pere Marquette road-two women and men.
None OF us were acquainted, and we had an hour
and half to wait at railroad crossing. There was
dreary looking waiting room, 12x12, and there
was platform sixty feet long by eight broad Thei
scenery consisted Of
One water tank.
Ten freight cars.
Two fields.
Five telegraph poles.
One pile of lumber
AS the train left u5 saw the two women closely
surveying each other from hat to shoes Each SEEM
ell to regard the other with suspicion and disrust.l
They entered the waiting room and sat down. get
ting as far from each other possible. The one
dressed in brown seemed to be saying TO herself
Good lands But what bad taste that woman
has. Who ever saw any one mix such eoloss to-
gether beiore II she Il going TO the lunatie asylum
she should have an attendant along, Such persons
are dangerous"
And the one dressed in blue seemed to be saying
to herself:
"Have got to wait here an hour and-a half in
the company of that thing? Such hatl Such q
oloakl What big feet She must be some one going
out to work in q creamery, and doubt if she knows
what olnty she Is I'M
My friend, the man, was fat, mild-eye spe6i-
men Of the human race. We stood Tor moment
and looked at each other. l might have satd To-
myself ~ 80
''Well, II Ihhyen't iustrun aeross a bank sneak
and highway roijDers then don't know grind
stone when see iii Wonder when he got out OF
prison? Seems to have an innocent look, but that
is all put on. No doubt he got Off the train think
ing to rob me of my Seand return ticket to Detroit
but I've spotted this little game and will be pre-
pared for any move"
And he might have unused
"Oh-hol So here Is Billy the kid--,he chap who
4 "a nd n I'm in ~al
lie Ross PRO- ably out another child stealing
expedition but Pm on to his game and will spoil 1t.
Myl but hasn't he got hardened lookl That fell
low would tear an Innocent babe from dying
mothers arms and dash Its brains out against the
family chuTn without one ray OF pity"
But neither Of us thought any such thing. Even
before the women got seated we threw grips
down together, and he saId
"Old boy do you smoker
"Yes-thanks."
way are you gong?"
'To Toledo"
"Goodi Pm going there myself Live in De.
troitP'
eyes Do your"
eyes. Your phz looks familiar TO me-
"And know I've often seen you, Let's walk up
| and down"
l. And while those women sat twelve feet apart,
| each one with her veil down and her body huddled
up in an exclusive SOFT of way, we walked arm In
| arm up and down and joked and told Stories and
said we were glad we met each other Forty minutes
| had passed away when one Of the women became
restlve 1t struck her that the train had come and
departed while she was in a reverie. II was an
awful thing to do. She might be addressing mura
deress for all she knew, and she was quite certain
that the other woman had ran away from two hua-
bands but she finally got up courage enough to ask:
"Have you the timer
The other gave start Of surprise. Did she hear
Alright? 1t might be that she was being addressed
by the cook of the scow Mary Ann but after taking
five minutes to think It all over, she replied
"No. Have your"
sAnd then both shrank away from each other
again and turned up their under their wells,
and were sorry that they let down their dignity
Meanwhile the stranger called me "old boy" and
borrowed some fine cut and poked me In the ribs:
and | called him 'old fellow" and slapped him ON
the back and borrowed every match he had, When
the train came along we got into the same car and
the same scat. The women came out to give each
other look Of disdain and enter separate coaches
and as each one found q seat she no doubt said To
herself
"well, Just catch me in suchA scrape again If you
can never passed such an hour and half in my
whole life Therailroad company ought to be sued
Tor letting Storage passengers into the first sass la
dies waiting room"